3789 Search results for "full"

Fighting violence on Mother’s Day: ‘We’ve got to change the madness’ Tara Malone, Chicago Tribune, May 9, 2010 Maria Ramirez got out of bed Sunday and tried not to think about Mother’s Day. The Chicago woman, whose only child, Matthew Ramirez, 16, was shot four years ago, instead gathered at St. Sabina Catholic Church with […]

ABC News | May 10, 2010 The legendary singer and actress died at age 92.

CNN | May 9, 2010 CNN’s Don Lemon speaks with a panel about the controversy of transracial adoption.

via Shadow and Act The first film to be acquired at the Sundance Film Festival this year – a documentary called Waiting For “Superman”, directed by Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth) about the crisis in public education in the USA, featuring leaders in the field of education, including Bill Gates of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Geoffrey Canada, president and CEO […]

Will The Youth Vote Trump Tea Party In Midterm Elections? Bakari Kitwana, Huffington Post, May 6, 2010 One of the most important unasked questions this midterm election year is this: “Will the youth vote be a factor in 2010?” Given the actual impact of the youth vote in 2008, it’s a far more important question […]

CNN | May 7, 2010 President Obama touts new job numbers, but warns the recovery is not complete.

Field trip for black students in Mich. draws anger Jeff Karoub, Associated Press, May 5, 2010 DETROIT — A school district is defending its intentions but reviewing its policies after a field trip by African-American elementary students to meet a University of Michigan rocket scientist drew complaints from excluded children and their parents. Ann Arbor […]

ABC News | May 6, 2010 Mellody Hobson explains the benefits and drawbacks of each card.

The Congressional Black Caucus and the politics of summer jobs Perry Bacon, Washington Post, May 4, 2010 Congress will appropriate more than $1 trillion this year, and all the Congressional Black Caucus wants is $1.3 billion. But after six months of haggling over the funding for a youth jobs program, the group is running out […]

I’ll be honest; I was not concerned with the immorality of Arizona’s SB 1070 before protests began popping up nationally and what was a state issue took a national audience.  Groups of concerned citizens have started to call for boycotts of Major League Baseball’s Arizona Diamondbacks. Protesters have followed the Diamondbacks to Colorado and even Chicago. […]

Why Is Twitter More Popular With Black People Than White People? Nick Saint, Business Insider, April 30, 2010 New data confirms that Twitter’s population is disproportionately black. According to Edison Research’s annual report on Twitter, black people represent 25% of Twitter users, roughly twice their share of the population in general. Why is this? A […]

At Oak Park High School, Tuesday and Thursday afternoons brings together an unorthodox assortment of high school students of all colors, shapes, ethnic backgrounds, economic statuses, neighborhoods, families and yes even cliques making up a thriving community of artists in our Spoken Word club. High school is usually an environment where weakness isn’t understood as making people stronger, […]